ACRONYMANIA | • acronymania n. The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms. • ACRONYMANIA n. a craze for acronyms. |
ACTINOMYCIN | • actinomycin n. (Biochemistry, pharmacology) Any of a class of toxic polypeptide antibiotics found in soil bacteria… • ACTINOMYCIN n. any of various antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria. |
BOTANOMANCY | • botanomancy n. Divination by plants. A form of pyromancy in which tree branches and/or leaves are burnt. • botanomancy n. Tea-leaf reading, or tasseomancy. • BOTANOMANCY n. divination using burning branches or plants. |
CLINDAMYCIN | • clindamycin n. (Pharmacology) A lincosamide antibiotic drug C18H33ClN2O5S, mostly used to treat infections with anaerobic… • CLINDAMYCIN n. an antibiotic drug used for serious infections that do not respond to other antibiotics. |
COENENCHYMA | • coenenchyma n. Coenenchym. • COENENCHYMA n. gelatinous material uniting the polyps of an anthozoan colony. |
CONDEMNABLY | • condemnably adv. In a condemnable manner. • CONDEMNABLE adv. able to be condemned. |
CRANIOGNOMY | • craniognomy n. (Dated) The science of the form and characteristics of the skull. • CRANIOGNOMY n. cranial physiognomy. |
DAUNOMYCINS | • daunomycins n. Plural of daunomycin. • DAUNOMYCIN n. an antibiotic used in treatment of leukaemia. |
HAEMOCYANIN | • haemocyanin n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of hemocyanin. • HAEMOCYANIN n. an oxygen-carrying pigment in arachnids, equivalent to haemoglobin in mammals. |
HEMOCYANINS | • hemocyanins n. Plural of hemocyanin. • HEMOCYANIN n. a colourless copper-containing respiratory pigment in the circulatory fluid of various arthropods and mollusks, also HAEMOCYANIN. |
MONOVALENCY | • monovalency n. The quality of being monovalent. • MONOVALENCY n. the state of being monovalent, also MONOVALENCE. |
NONMYSTICAL | • nonmystical adj. Not mystical. • NONMYSTICAL adj. not mystical. |
ONEIROMANCY | • oneiromancy n. (Uncountable, divination) Divination by the interpretation of dreams. • oneiromancy n. (Uncountable, in a weak sense) The interpretation of dreams. • oneiromancy n. (Countable, divination) An act of such divination or dream-interpretation. |
ONYCHOMANCY | • onychomancy n. An ancient form of divination based on the reflections of sunlight on a boy’s fingernails. • ONYCHOMANCY n. divination by studying the fingernails. |
SYNONYMATIC | • synonymatic adj. Synonymous. • SYNONYMATIC adj. of, consisting of or relating to synonyms. |
SYNONYMICAL | • synonymical adj. Synonymic. • SYNONYMICAL adj. like a synonym, also SYNONYMIC. |
UNMERCENARY | • unmercenary adj. Not mercenary. • unmercenary n. A saint who performed good deeds without accepting payment. • UNMERCENARY adj. not mercenary. |
VANCOMYCINS | • VANCOMYCIN n. an antibiotic drug obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces orientalis, used against bacteria that are resistant to other antibiotics. |